Today is my birthday, and while it’s a working knitting day (still finishing up some of those pesky deadline projects), at least it’s a day I get to spend with yarn, and the non-yarn bits have been a bit relaxed so far. I’m planning a full do-whatever-i-want-day sometime next week as recompense for having to use my brain on my birthday – heck, the “have a pedicure then go buy an armload of Madelinetosh” seemed to work well on my day off a few weeks ago, perhaps I’ll repeat that endeavour. Practice does always help matters, after all.

But speaking of yarn – this morning I discovered that the mail had brought a lovely enormous box of it on my doorstep, from Knit Picks (to be revealed later in knitted object form, if all goes as planned), which I don’t think I have to tell you is a pretty great thing.

Then I had lunch with a friend. It was poutine. (I decided today would finally be the day I tried lobster poutine. It was pretty good but, I concluded, not actually necessary. Regular poutine is still awesome no matter what.

Now I am ensconced with my knitting and some cake, with a little new knitting reading to add to my bookshelf courtesy of one of my gifts – not too shabby.

Thanks for being out there in internet-land, knitter friends! If I could share my cake with you through the blog, I would.

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61 responses to “Another year”

Happy Birthday! I always enjoy your blog. The poutine looks good. I tried poutine for the first time last year on a visit to Montreal. (I’m in the US) I liked it and the squeaky cheese, but the brown gravy was interesting. Not sure about that. Anyway, I do like cake…enjoy yours!

Happy birthday! Last year’s birthday seems like such a long time ago. I still miss Sock Summit. And I have to admit, I’ve never had poutine. I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and it looks awesome. Glad you liked yours. Enjoy your cake!

I’m new in these parts, but I’ll definitely be stopping back again and again. Love the idea for a do-whatever-you-want day to make up for a busy birthday, which I hope you very much enjoyed, by the way!

Happy Birthday!!! Enjoy your day with yarn – even though it involves some work. I didn’t realize there were different variations on poutine! I had poutine for the first time on a trip to Quebec in 2004 – very unique AND good :-)